SGRF announces sixth annual international conference

SciGenom Research Foundation is organizing the sixth annual international conference titled “NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)” to be held in Cochin, October 3-5, 2016ETHealthWorld | Updated: September 19, 2016, 06:50 IST

SciGenom Research Foundation is organizing the sixth annual international conference titled “NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)” to be held in Cochin, October 3-5, 2016SciGenom Research Foundation is organizing the sixth annual international conference titled “NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)” to be held in Cochin, India during October 3rd – 5th, 2016.

This year, the co-hosts for the NGBT meeting include Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Biology Department), Mumbai, India; The Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics (CCAB) and The Toronto Recombinant Antibody Centre (TRAC), Toronto, Canada; Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bengaluru, India and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India.

The conference features exciting developments in genomics technologies, and their applications in life sciences including human, plant and animal biology, drug discovery, cancer immunology, genome engineering using CRISPR/CAS9, clinical trials, and personalized therapy. It features accomplished national and international speakers who are thinkers and thought leaders who shape the course of scientific discovery. The conference will be an ecosystem for scientists and students to share their work, build new connections and explore collaborations. Ernst & Young LLP will be a Strategic partner for the conference and they will lead an “idea exchange” forum where national and international institutions and individuals will be able to pitch their intellectual property (IP) or ideas to investors and entrepreneurs. ETHealthworld will be NGBT’s online media partner.

This year, around 100 Speakers are expected at the event representing leading universities and research institutions from India and abroad. The conference will also feature industry leaders representing Illumina, PacBio, MedGenome, Roche, Eppendorf, Agilent, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT), Macrogen, Genentech, Eli Lilly, Intel, EMC-Isilon and other leading organizations.